Greetings all,
I am preparing to buy or build a new computer and would like some advice.
The basic question is: Which would give me more grunt per $, a dual celeron 500
or an AMD Athlon 600 single processor. I have a budget of approx Aus$3000,
remembering costs are higher in Aus than in the US and here in Western
Australia some of the cutting edge hardware is very hard to get, Perth is the
most isolated major city on earth (3000km from the nearest other major city),
so freight charges can be high. I am a fairly seasoned Linux user (3+yrs), but
have no experience with SMP having never had a multi-processor box. 99.9% of my
time is spent in Linux
My primary uses for this box will be:
1. GIS and satellite image processing and analysis.
2. Biological modelling using Objective-C and the Swarm Simulation System
(see: http://www.santafe.edu/projects/swarm/)
3. General programming in C and Objective-C
I understand that Objective-C can make use of 2 processors, and the Swarm
developers are aiming for major SMP and Beowulf cluster support in the future.
Secondary use:
My 13 yr old son playing Windows games.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated
Cheers and Happy new year/century/millenium,
Matt
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Matt Aylward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Deptartment of Botany, University of Western Australia
LINUX: The OS with the power for real science.
Long live Linux, Swarm modelling and Grass GIS.
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